Small cars. You do the physics.
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Category: Climate & Energy
FLASHBACK: Carbon taxes won’t save the planet
My Washington Times column from 2012 with the simple math that shows why a US carbon tax will have no effect on the climate — even if you do believe in catastrophic global warming.
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Trump nominee Kavanaugh may not be a climate skeptic… but here’s why that’s okay!
Here is what Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has had to say about global warming in DC Circuit Court of Appeals decisions.
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Claim: Black lung returns to coal country
That’s NPR’s claim — but is it true? I asked a pulmonologist who has treated black lung.
WINNING!!! California climate lawsuit against Big Oil dismissed
Here’s the decision. Read it and weep climate bedwetters!
Update: JunkScience struggles with NYTimes op-ed page — wins grudging correction, exposes flagrant hypocrisy
I went back and forth yesterday with NYTimes op-ed page staff over Swamp King Trent Lott’s failure to disclose his conflicts of interest in his NYTimes op-ed advocating for a carbon tax. What an experience.
Swamp king Trent Lott forgets to disclose clients in NYTimes op-ed advocating a CO2 tax
Will the New York Times fix Lott’s failure?
CLAIM: Antarctica ramps up sea level rise. REALITY: Sea level rise NOT accelerating.
The claim is not supported by tide gauges.
Study: Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought
More than 10F warmer.
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Claim: Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest point in more than 1,500 years
Two questions: 1. How do they know? (Unverifiable guesswork based on the size of sediment grains — really?) 2. Assuming the claim is true, why was it so weak 1,500 years ago?).
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Claim: Cutting carbon emissions sooner could save 153 million lives
False. Duke’s Drew Shindell knows nothing about air quality epidemiology — at least that is a charitable explanation for this junk science.
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Claim: Coral reef experiment shows acidification from carbon dioxide slows growth
Nah.
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